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ASPEN – — Elam Construction Inc. won approval Wednesday to use bigger equipment at the company’s sand and gravel pit near Woody Creek this year as it gears up for a $6.7 million paving project on Highway 82.
Pitkin County commissioners voted 4-0 to approve an amendment to the company’s permit for mining the materials with Commissioner Michael Owsley absent. Owsley’s district encompasses Woody Creek.
The amendment allows Elam to use bigger, more efficient machinery, including a larger bulldozer and a trackhoe, which boasts a bucket at the end of a rotating boom. The latter will be used to fill trucks that can carry 27 tons of material.
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